Undergarment.



K. SEGAL.

UNDERGARMENT.

APPLIGATIO FILED DEU.1'7,1912.

Patented Oct. 20, 1914.

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WITNESSES- UNITED STATES OFFICE.

KEEVA SEGAL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

UNDEBGARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 17, 1912.

To allic/mm it may concern Be it known that I, Kin-1m SEC-AL, a citizenof the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadel )hia.State of Pennsylvania. have invented a new and useful Undcrgarment, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an undergarmeut particularly of the order ofunion garments and consists in providing the crotch of the drawersthereof with a gore of knitted fabric which is elastic or resilient incomparison to the fabric of which the body of the drawers is composed,the same being constructed and possessing advantages as will behereinafter .set forth, and its novelty pointed out in the claim.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanyin" drawing,but the important instrument-a ities thereof may be \aried, and so it isto be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific arranment and organization shown and dc sen Figure 1 represents a frontelevation of an undergarment embodyin my invention. Fig. 2 represents arear e ovation of a portion thereof. Fi 3 represents a plan view of thegore emp oyed. Fig. 4 represents a longitu inal section of a portion online w-a: Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a front view of a portion of thearment, the gore having been removed there rom. Fig. 6 represents a lon-'tudinal section of a portion on line yy gimilar numerals of referenceindicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings: 1 designates a garment known as unionunderwear, the same being composed of the undershirt portion 2 anddrawers portion 3, which ortions are made of fabric comparativelyinelastic as usual in such cases. The fabric of the drawers portion isseparated at the crotch from the top 4 of the same downwardly to theoints 6 on the inner sides of the le portion 6, and the edges of theseparated portion are cut-away in .ipwardl curved direction formingarches 7 of said edges on both the front and rear of the drawers at thecrotch and portions below the same. In said arches, I insert a gore 8which is composed of a piece of knitted fabric folded upwardly at itscenter line the fold bridgin from one point 5 to the other at the bases0 the arches, the edges of the gusset being sewed or Patented Oct. 20,1914.

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stitched to the edges of said arches 7, thus joining the front and rearpieces of the drawers at the crotch and portions below the same, andclosing the gap occasioned by primarily separating said pieces andbringing the bottom fold of the gusset in contact with the crotch of thewearer and the sides of the gusset in contact with the sides of theupper portions of the legs of the wearer, so that the gusset presents asoft fabric to said places of contact preventing chafing or otherdiscomfiture thereat, and the gusset yields freely in all directions dueto the motions of the wearer avoiding material strain on the gusset andadjacent portions of the garment. Attention is directed particulartt tothe fact that the gore, and consequently the edges of the separations ofthe crotch, and adJacent portions of the legs, curve downwardly from thecrowns of said gore to the side edges of the bottom fold thereof. thusconforming to the anatomy of the body of the wearer at the places ofoccupation of the gore and drawers in gentle and continuous curves, thuspreventing 'severe buckling of the fabric at said places, and avoidingchafing or other discomfiture in the wearing of the garment at theplaces indicated as above stated.

The inner sides of each leg 6 are stitched together and so closed fromthe points 5 to the bottoms 9 of the legs as is evident. It will benoticed that the stitches of said sides and edgcsof the gore and thoseof the separated edges of the crotch extend in the direction of thearch.meet at the legs 6 at the terminals of the bottom fold of the gore, andsaid stitches continue downwardly to the bottoms 9 of the legs as hasbeen stated. The front opening piece or band 10 of the garment extendsdown to the crotch and the lower end of said band overlaps the top edgeof the front crown of the gore as at 11, and said crown is stitched tothe overlapping portion of the band. which latter thus acts as a hangerfor the front wall of the ore at the crown thereof and provides areinforced connection for the gore with the crown of the front arch tothe crotch of the drawers, thus enabling the crown of the gore to endurethe severe upward strain of the garment to which it is subjected at itscrotch. Then, the hem 12 of the rear opening of the garment is continueddownwardly so as to overlap the top of the rear crown of the gusset asat 13, and stitched to said crown, acts as a hunger for the rear wall fthe gore at the crown thereof and serrthe and to-the lower edges oftherjiaps, present invention is differentiated from the patent aforesaidin the various particulars ingalso as a, reinforce for the connectionfor the re with-the rear arch of the crotch of fi i'ewers for the samepurpose as at the front arch.

.I- ameware that it has heretofore been proposed in the atent to Clarke,No. 1 035,819, patented ugust 13th, 1912, to em ploy a buttoned flap andan elastic knitted triangular or other shaped fabric extending well upin thefront of the garment and ex tending down the leg seamsto form alaterally elastic closed crotch that is firmly sewed to the front of thegarment, the leg) seams at my ereinbefore recited, and hereinafterpointed out in the claini, aswill be evident to those skilled in theart. I am also aware that it has been roposcd also to employ a triangu--lar or 0t ershaped elastic or non elastic crotch piece in the crotchportion of nether common right to employ a crotch piece of the characterdescribed, I do not herein make any claim for the same, 7161' se, butonly claim the same in combination with the other novel features of myinvention, and to none of the constructions of the prior art, do Iherein make my claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A garment embodying drawers having the crotch thereof and adjacentportions of the legs thereof separated and cut-away, the edges of theseparations being of the form of an arch, a gore of the character statedhaving a fold at the bottom, and its top and sides of the form of anarch, the side and top edges of the gore being stitched to the edges ofsaid separations of the drawers, a band on the front of the rment, thesame being extended downwar l y to said crotch and overlapping the crownof the front wall of said gore and being stitched thereto, and a hem onthe rear of the garment, the same being extended downwardly to saidcrotch and overlapping the crown of the rear wall of said gore and beingstitched thereto.

KEEVA SEGAL. Witnesses:

Joan A. Wmnnnerram, C. D. Mover.

